Re: pasting a password

[Juri Linkov]

>> That does not work for yank-pop since the default binding is not a
>> single character one.
>
> It's bound to a single-event sequence, namely M-y.  Now, it's true that
> in several circumstances, M-y will be turned into ESC y, so it will only
> work in some cases and not all (typically it'll work in a GUI but not
> in a tty).
> I think to do it better, we'll need to use an implementation technique
> closer to the one used by isearch.

It seems this basically means just ripping out the meat of the function
isearch-other-meta-char.

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Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/